How to upload photos

Have you taken a bunch of great photos that you'd like to be able to show your friends from a distance? Would you like to always be able to access all your favorite shots? If the answer to these and other similar questions is affirmative, know that upload photos taking advantage of one or more of the many special online services could be a good, indeed an excellent idea.

Most likely you were not already aware of it but several Web services are available on the net that allow you to upload photos in such a way as to be able to access them always and in any case and also in order to make your shots visible to third parties, all provided that you have an active and functioning Internet connection.

If you are interested in this and if you want to understand how to upload photos, I suggest you take a few minutes of free time, get comfortable and concentrate carefully on reading the following lines. I am sure that in the end you too, like many other users, will be able to upload photos and that you can tell yourself more than satisfied with the thing. Let it bet?

Flickr

Among the most renowned and appreciated online services in the world for uploading photos Flickr undoubtedly deserves the first place on the list. If you have never heard of it, know that it is a famous Yahoo! which allows, in fact, to upload photos and which offers ample space in terms of storage. Flickr allows you to store photos on the cloud up to 1 TB in a totally free way. Flickr also allows you to save the shots in their original format and view them in various automatically generated resolutions (640px, 800px, 1024px etc.). The formats supported by the service are JPEG, GIF (not animated) and PNG. All other formats are automatically converted to JPG.

To be able to upload photos to Flickr, the first thing to do is to create a Yahoo! account. If you already have a Yahoo! you can skip reading the following lines while if you do not already have an account click here to connect to the home page of the service dodpocihè presses the button Sign up with Yahoo that you find in the center of the screen.

Fill in the fields in the new screen that will be shown at this point Your name e Last name by typing your name and your surname, fill in the field Yahoo username typing the username you intend to use for your account, fill in the field Password by entering the password you want to use to access your account and then fill in the field Mobile no providing your mobile number. Then specify your date of birth and your sex and if you wish, fill in the fields Optional recovery number e Report. To conclude, presses the purple button Create account. In the new Web page that will be shown to you, press the button Send SMS to receive the verification code for creating the Yahoo account on your mobile phone, then fill in the field Code shown on the screen by entering the PIN received via SMS.

At this point connected to the main page of Flickr and presses on the item Log in located at the top right. Then log in with your Yahoo! then click on the button Charge also located at the top right and drag all the shots you want to upload to the Internet into the browser window. During the upload you can adjust the copyright and viewing permissions for each photo by clicking on its thumbnail and selecting the options you prefer from the left sidebar.

After having uploaded photos to be able to view them in full size, access your gallery and then press on the shot of your interest.

To share the uploaded images, simply press on them, click on the arrow-shaped button located at the bottom, select the tab Share, Incorporates o BBCode depending on the type of final result you wish to obtain, copy the link provided and paste it where you feel most appropriate.

If you wish, you can also upload photos with Flickr through the official applications of the service available for Windows and Mac OS X, for Android and for iOS.

Imgur

Also Imgur is a fairly well-known service that allows you to upload photos. This very simple and practical service is primarily used to share photo galleries and animated GIFs. Imgur has no registration obligation, supports all major graphic formats and has an upload limit of 20 MB for photos and 200 MB for animated GIFs. It is important to keep in mind that photos over 5MB and GIFs over 1MB are automatically compressed which means that it is possible to experience quality losses compared to the original file.

To be able to upload photos to Imgur the first thing you need to do is to click here so that you can immediately connect to the main web page of the service. Then press the button upload images that you find placed at the top, then presses the button browse you computer and select from your computer the photo you want to upload online. Alternatively, you can upload photos to Imgur by dragging them directly into the web browser window where the web page of the service is open or by making a copy and paste. If instead of uploading photos individually it is your intention to create an album, press the button create album. Then click the button Start Upload and wait for the image to be loaded and completed.

Once the upload is complete, you can then decide to make your shots visible to all Imgur users by pressing the green button Publish to Imgur or you can share and access the photos directly online using the links in the section Share this image.

If you wish, you can also upload photos to Imgur through the official applications available for Android and iOS.

ImageShack

The services that I have already proposed to you for uploading photos were not to your liking? No? Well, then try taking a look at ImageShack. This is one of the most used and long-lived online image uploading services. ImageShack allows you to easily share any type of photo over the network. The service can be used both for a fee and for free but in its free form it does not include many useful functions for uploading photos. However, when signing up for a new account, a trial period of the paid version of one month is offered.

If you want to upload photos with ImageShack click here so that you can immediately connect to the main Web page of the service and then click on the button Start uploading located in the center of the displayed screen.

Now fill in the various fields shown on the screen by typing your e-mail address, the username you intend to use to access the service and the password you want to associate with the latter dodpocihè click on the button Sing up for a free account to create an account through which you can use ImageShack. Alternatively, you can access the service via Facebook by simply pressing the button Facebook log in.

Then check the e-mail box referring to the e-mail with which you have chosen to register for the service, presses on the message sent by the ImageShack team and then click on the item Active Now present within it to confirm your willingness to start using the service.

Once the main page of ImageSack is displayed, drag the photo or photos you want to upload online directly into the browser window, then wait for the upload to start and complete, then press the button Go to my images to view the list of images you have uploaded.

Once the procedure for uploading photos is completed by pressing on the shot of your interest you can view it in full screen, you can change its title by pressing on it and the size and type of link generated by clicking on the button Get likes / Image sites present to the side.

To easily share the photos upload to Imageshack you just need to simply copy the link in the address bar of the Web browser after pressing on the individual images and paste it where you see fit.

If you wish you can upload photos with ImageShack also through the official applications of the service available for Windows, for Mac, for Android and for iOS

Other solutions for uploading photos

If you need to upload photos mostly from mobile and if you think the services I have already proposed are not right for you, try to take a look at Google Photos and ICloud Photo Library.

If you have never heard of it, know that Google Photos is a service offered directly by Google that allows you to upload photos online by providing users with unlimited storage space. All photos are uploaded to Google Drive without compromising the space available on the service. Google Photos is available for Android (where it is installed as standard on most smartphones and tablets on sale) and for iPhone. To activate the backup function with unlimited space, just start the app, press the button Menu top left and go up first Settings and then Backup and synchronization. Then move up ON the lever located at the top right, press the button Dimensioni cartoon and metti il ​​segno di spunta accanto alla voce High quality.

ICloud Photo Library is Apple's official service for backing up photos. It allows you to synchronize photos on all iOS devices but also on all Macs. On the Internet, photos are saved in their original format while optimized copies are kept locally to save disk space. For more information about it you can consult my tutorial on how to archive photos on iCloud.

How to upload photos